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1 week ago | utsa.edu | Andrew Chapman

Career Readiness APRIL 14, 2025 — The Winston Churchill Foundation has selected UTSA to become a participating institution in its Churchill Scholarship Program, one of the most competitive international scholarships available for American graduate students. As part of the program, UTSA will be eligible to nominate two students each year for the prestigious award.

2 weeks ago | eos.org | Andrew Chapman

On 6 February 2023, a pair of powerful earthquakes—magnitudes 7.8 and 7.5—struck southern Türkiye and northwestern Syria 9 hours apart, killing 59,000 people and causing catastrophic damage. While in the area mapping earthquake-triggered landslides the following month, Istanbul Technical University geomorphologist Tolga Görüm and his team noticed an atmospheric river approaching the disaster zone.

Dec 7, 2024 | texarkanagazette.com | Andrew Chapman

A giant centipede's many wriggling legs might be creepy. But the pair of legs not used for walking may be the most frightening. Over 430 million years ago, the two legs nearest the mouth evolved into sharp pincers that contain venom glands. Within those glands are microscopic factories capable of manufacturing multiple toxic compounds. Arthropods, just like spiders, giant centipedes use these tools to hunt prey -- everything from crickets to snakes.

Oct 21, 2024 | nature.com | Andrew Chapman |Asuka Ishigami |Yosuke Shigetomi |Yin Long

We explored the intricate quantitative structure of household food waste and their corresponding life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from raw materials to retail utilizing a combination of household- and food-related economic statistics and life cycle assessment in Japan. Given Japan’s status as a nation heavily impacted by an aging population, this study estimates these indicators for the six age brackets of Japanese households, showing that per capita food waste increases as the age of the household head increases (from 16.6 for the 20’s and younger group to 46.0 kg/year for 70’s and older in 2015) primarily attributed to the propensity of older households purchase of more fruits and vegetables. Further, the largest life cycle greenhouse gases related to food waste was 90.1 kg-CO2eq/year for those in their 60’s while the smallest was 39.2 kg-CO2eq/year for 20’s and younger. Furthermore, food waste and associated emissions are expected to decline due to future demographic changes imparted by an aging, shrinking population after 2020 until 2040. Specific measures focused on demographic shifts are crucial for Japan and other countries with similar dietary patterns and demographics to achieve related sustainable development goals through suppressing food waste and associated emissions under new dietary regimes. Given Japan’s aging population, this study examines household food waste and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions for the six age brackets of Japanese households. Older households have higher food waste emissions than younger households.

Sep 29, 2024 | msn.com | Andrew Chapman

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